ABSTRACT

Providing new chapters, homework problems, case studies, figures, and examples, Ballistics: Theory and Design of Guns and Ammunition, Second Edition encourages superior design and innovative applications in the field of ballistics. It examines the analytical and computational tools used to predict a weapon's behavior in terms of pressure, stress, a

part |2 pages

Part I Interior Ballistics

chapter 1|4 pages

Introductory Concepts

chapter 2|62 pages

Physical Foundation of Interior Ballistics

chapter 3|42 pages

Analytic and Computational Ballistics

chapter 4|56 pages

Ammunition Design Practice

chapter 5|24 pages

Weapon Design Practice

part |2 pages

Part II Exterior Ballistics

chapter 6|12 pages

Introductory Concepts

chapter 7|18 pages

Dynamics Review

chapter 8|84 pages

Trajectories

chapter 9|26 pages

Linearized Aeroballistics

chapter 10|4 pages

Mass Asymmetries

chapter 11|10 pages

Lateral Throwoff

chapter 12|8 pages

Swerve Motion

chapter 13|8 pages

Nonlinear Aeroballistics

part |2 pages

Part III Terminal Ballistics

chapter 14|4 pages

Introductory Concepts

chapter 15|50 pages

Penetration Theories

chapter 16|88 pages

Shock Physics

chapter 17|16 pages

Introduction to Explosive Effects

chapter 18|24 pages

Shaped Charges

chapter 19|28 pages

Wound Ballistics